Comic 420 - Shopping Star, Burning Bright, Page 5

Author Notes:

Heheh... Yeah, had a ton of fun with this page too. The costume store was just great to work with in general.

There are quite a few cameos in here; one is Author-Write-Us, who's in the second panel without his costume. Well.... Okay, costume's on the counter, but he's not wearing it. I really like this bad guy; seems genuinely very nice and friendly from his appearances and ideas so far. I not only want him to come back, I want him to show up in Blues. ^^

Other oddities are a Wonderbolt costume in the second panel and Rarity's costume from the MLP Superhero episode in the third. ^^ The fourth actually has the mask worn by the wrestler Kane.

I gotta work on how I do racks. The one in the foreground of Panel 3 took a while to do. I was so burned out by it I really half-assed the next panel. Look, those coats are just floating. Or are half-embedded in the wall.

Oh no, it turns out this whole time Laura's secretly been a brutal tyrant!

Heh. Yeah, if you remember that DA filler of Laura dressed in royal garb, it just was just after the script for this page had been written so Adam wanted to fiddle with the visual early. I was kind of unsure on doing it early but I still really like how this page came out, and this sequence as a whole. Got some fun stuff planned out of this.

Another cameo, though this is only really a coloring one, is I went with that plague doctor mask being red getting at looking like Tweeter from Super Mario Bros. 2. The displays for them being white helps with that.

Yeah, I dunno what else I've really got on this one, but I'm quite happy with it and hope everybody enjoys.